The company touts its new device-as-a-service, or DaaS, as a way to ease companies away from the hardware purchasing decision towards treating a PC, and everything attached to it, as an operating expense.

Fourteen of the 24 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the first quarter of 2018 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at who were the winners and who were the losers.

Ingram Micro executive vice president and Americas group president Paul Bay says rather than focus on technology and its delivery, Ingram Micro today is all about the business outcome the channel needs to deliver.